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meanwhile 1 got into the omnibus and proceeded to Parkstohe, a very 

 pleasant place overlooking Poole harbour, and walked along the 

 shore of the harbour to a place called in the Ordnance map Lilliput. 

 It is a very pleasant walk, and just below Parkstoue I got Carex ex- 

 tensa, Schcenus nigricans and Scirpus uniglurnis. The latter is, I 

 believe, a good species, though we find at Lewes a form in some de- 

 gree intermediate. Returning there the next day Mr. Borrer showed 

 me Tillaea muscosa on the walls of a nursery-ground. As I continued 

 along the shore I saw great abundance of QEnanthe pimpinelloides. 

 Trifolium glomeratum and ornithopodioides occur near the Little Sea. 

 Bartsia viscosa, Briza minor, Lotus hispidus and Ornithopus perpu- 

 sillus were growing near Lilliput. Cochlearia anglica abounds by 

 the ditches near the harbour. 



On Wednesday I went with Mr. Borrer to Corfe Castle. We ga- 

 thered in the way Rhynchospora fusca, a plant which seems pretty 

 widely scattered on the heaths about Wareham. Mr. Borrer returned 

 on the same day to Bourne Mouth, and after his departure I walked 

 among the clay-pits to the west of the road between Wareham and 

 Corfe Castle. My principal object in taking this direction was to 

 look for Trifolium resupinatum. This plant has been found at Poole 

 and near Bristol, and in both instances apparently in connexion with 

 clay which had been brought from the clay-pits of this district. It 

 would therefore be very interesting to discover it here, and to give it 

 an undoubted claim to a place among our native plants ; but my 

 search was in vain, the best plant in the walk being Ranunculus par- 

 viflorus, which occurs in many places in Dorsetshire. Orchis conop- 

 sea on the peaty heaths had a most delightful odour: on the chalky 

 banks none at all. 



The next day I walked down to Cherford Bridge, and thence ram- 

 bled over Fibsworth Heath. Erica cinerea and Tetralix were both in 

 good flower, though not perhaps so abundantly so as they will be a 

 fortnight or a month hence; and I hoped to find E. ciliaris equally 

 advanced, but in places where my memory represented the ciliaris as 

 bearing its full proportion of covering the ground with the other 

 heaths, I could find only a few shabby plants, with hardly any indica- 

 tion of their intending to flower this year. Indeed, if it had not been 

 for a few remaining dried racemes of last year, I doubt if I should 

 have observed the plant at all. In 1839 I gathered it in full flower 

 on the 22nd August, and at Plelan, in Brittany, I had before found it 

 on the 11th July. 



In spite of the threatening weather, I set off next morning to trace 



